Sending a Visible Image postcard with love

 Hi there, it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image.

I can also announce the news that Mark Alexander aka Mr Visible Image is back on Create and Craft TV this Thursday at 12.45pm UK time. Mark will have some fab new samples to demo and there will be lots of samples on the set from my teamies and myself. 

Today I am sharing a postcard. These are fun to make and even swap and measure 6" x 4", the size of a UK standard postcard. The stamps I used are all on the show. I worked with the love sentiment from

Equality, hope and love

and the gorgeous roses and barbed wire stamps from

Forever love

This is what I got up to;

I used a piece of shaving foam marbled card I made with my granddaughter using distress reinkers and sprays. This is a really old crafting technique (I did it as a child with food colouring) and there are lots of on line instructions and videos. I cut it to 6x4"

I stamped and embossed the love sentiment from  Equality, hope and love and then stamped the barbed wire using archival ink onto the left side. These would be my flower stalks.

and then the right.

I stamped several of the roses from  Forever love  (I only ended up using a few) onto red card using black ink and clear embossed them. I also cut out some of the centres of some more of the large roses to use for decoupaging.

I stamped and embossed the large rose onto the postcard using red embossing glitter

then I adhered the large rose. I decoupaged it with a couple of extra layers of petals. I added a small rose at the top of each barbed wire plant stalks. I finished off with some dewdrops of Glossy accents for extra shine, drippage (is that a word?!?) and dimension. 

Here is my finished postcard

with a close up of the decoupaged dewy rose

and a couple more photos. 

All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

This is the link to the new release. 

 If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, many more than I get the time to blog,  this is the link to my account.

Remember to that you can see everything on Create and Craft on Thursday or set those recorders and catch up later.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Missing you with Visible Image

Hi there, it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Today I am showcasing some old with the new again. I used the awesome new "I miss your face" sentiment from

 Lost for words

with the incredibly versatile new 

Grunge tones set

plus their gorgeous "rose" from the

Random art of kindness set

and their beautiful ink swirls stencil

I decided to make a tag. Here's what I got up to;

I smashed some some squeezed lemonade and fossilized amber distress inks onto my mixed media mat, added some water and created a watercolour background to my tag.

Next I blended speckled egg distress ink through the ink swirls stencil

Then I stamped using all 3 stamps from the Grunge tones  set using salty ocean ink and first and 2nd generation stamping to give a subtle background

I also stamped and embossed the sentiment  from Lost for words and the numbers stamps from Random art of kindness set and carried on building up the layers.

I added some alcohol ink pearls to heat resistant acetate. I have shared this technique many times before and also demoed it at many a stamp show in 2019. I stamped and clear embossed the roses and cut them out.

I stamped the roses again on the tag and then layered everything up

using glossy accents as my adhesive.

Here is my finished tag which I mounted onto black

a couple of close ups 

and one final shot.

All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

This is the link to the new release. 

 If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, many more than I get the time to blog,  this is the link to my account.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Dreams of sunshine birthdays with Visible Image

Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. For today's make I was inspired by my upcoming "not going to happen big birthday plans". I have a big birthday coming up on Thursday and all the plans we made a few years ago have gone out of the window courtesy of Mr Corona.  

We had planned a celebratory trip and a lovely meal out .

This is a distant memory of a meal out in our beloved Rhodes 2 years ago. 

 but as that is not going to happen I created an imaginary "sunshine holiday" birthday on a canvas. A girl can still dream can't she?  Confused....well that's how my creative brain works. All will be revealed....

I worked with these sets;

the birthday sentiment from Lost for words

Random art of kindness

and the Count me in stencil

This is what I got up to;

I added drops of picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade and crackling campfire distress reinker to a rectangle of water colour card and added water using my distress sprayer. 

Once dry I added these distress inks through  the Count me in stencil

I also machine stitched around the edge of the card.

Next I created a circle frame for my flowers using 3 die cut scallop circle edges. 

I stamped the flowers from 

Random art of kindness onto inky mop up card and cut them out. I decoupaged the centers of the circular ones and adding glitter pen details to them all for extra sparkle.

I then glued them around the circle frame.

I stamped the birthday sentiment onto card and stitched a border. I also did this to a coloured card mat and stuck them together.

I glued this into the centre of the floral circle.

I made a corrugate card base for my canvas by adding a little red ink and then some embossing powders to it for extra detail and texture.

 I ripped off some of the covering and used a brush to add embossing ink to areas around the visible edges only. I sprinkled in the powders and heat embossed them from underneath.

Then I matted the finished canvas onto blue card, adhered it to the base and added sprinkle of sequins to finish.

Job done....

Here it is...you might need sun glasses!

with some close ups showing the details.

and one last shot of my Calypso birthday canvas.

I would like to enter my canvas into the following challenges;

The house that stamps built 1/3 anything goes

Fab n funky 1/3 flowers

 All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

This is the link to the new release. 

 If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, this is the link to my account.

 My Hb and I will obviously not be donning our sunglasses on Thursday and lapping up the sunshine in a tropical hideaway. We will still enjoy a little celebration at home ....and a bottle of champagne is going in the fridge to chill.

The only upside of all this is we that don't have to share it with anyone!!!! Cheers! 

I will be back here on my birthday, as of course being the first of the month I also have my other 2 DT's hats to put on. Time and tide eh!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x